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« 4 THE DAILY GLOBE IS PUBLISHED EVERY DAY *:-" At .lie ttlolte BuU_ltn_r. COR. FOURTH AND CEDAR STS. : SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Parable tv Advance. Dully and Sunday, per month .50 Dally and Sunday, G months. $2.75 Dally and Sunday, one >-ear...53.00 Dally only, per month. ..... .40 Dally only, Mix months. ... .$2.25 Daily only, one year . $4.00 Sunday only, one year. ..... .91*50 Weekly, one year $1.00 Address all letters and telegrams to THB GLOBE. St. Paul. Minn. EASTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE. ROOM 517.TEMPLE COURT BUILD ING. NEW YORK. .WASHINGTON BUREAU. 1405 F ST. N. W. ■ - Complete flies of the G lo b c always kept on hand for reference. TODAY'S WEATHER. WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. — Indica tions for Wednesday: For Minnesota: Local showers in east, fair in west portion; northerly winds, becoming variable; cooler in southern portion. For Wisconsin: Local rains, fol lowed by fair in east and west por tions; variable winds; warmer in east ern portion and cooler in western por tion. For Iowa: Fair; westerly winds; cooler in western portion. For South Dakota: Generally fair; winds becoming variable; warmer in northwestern portion. For North Dakota: Generally . fair; westerly winds; warmer. For Montana: Generally fair; west erly winds. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. United States Department of Agri culture, Weather Bureau. Washing ton. Sept. 17, 6:48 p. m. Local Time, 8 p.m. 75th Meridian Time.—Observa tions taken at the same moment of time ;at all stations. TEMPERATURES. Place. Ther.: Place. Ther. St- Paul SS|Medicine Hat. ...74 Duluth 58, Swift Current.. ..7o La Crosse }j8 Qu'Appelle 68 Huron _.._' Mlnnedosa 7-' Pierre ' 90 Winnipeg 68 Moorhead Port Arthur ....54 St. Vincent 78— Bismarck fcO Buffalo 06-72 Williston 78 Boston 68-80 _ -?* « • ...76 Cheyenne 80-88 Miles City <« Chicago 82-86 Helena 72 j Cincinnati . . . .84-88 Ldmonton 68 Montreal 32-66 Battleford 72 New Orleans.. Bo-?8 •Prince A1bert.... 70 New York ....74-7.8 Calgary ...m Pittsburg 76-80 DAILY MEANS. Barometer, 29.71; thermometer, 78; relative humidity, 76; wind, northwest; weather clear; maximum thermometer, 96; minimum thermometer. 59; dally range, 37; amount of rainfall in last twenty-four hours, 0. <■ . . . RIVER AT 8 A M. Gauge Danger Height of Reading. Line. Water. Change. St. Paul 14 . 1.9 «'5.4 La Crosse... -...10 1.3 .00 Davenport ....15 0.6 --0 1 StLouis 30 6.5 —0.5 •Rise. — Fall. Note. Barometer corrected for tem perature and elevation. , P. F. LYONS, ... : .. - Observer. — *_■ THE STATE BRINGS SUIT. The attorney general of Minnesota brought suit yesterday, in the dis trict court of Ramsey county, to pre vent the consummation of the pro posed arrangement between the -Northern, Pacific and the Great Northern companies. This action is .taken in behalf of the state, and the matter will be brought before the state courts for their determination. It is. in substance and in form, en tirely distinct from the suit brought by Mr. Pearsall in the federal circuit court. The attorney general purposely .held himself aloof from those proceedings, In order that he might be free to take such action subsequently as might be deemed for the best inter ests of the people. What his conclu sion on that point is is shown, in the .omplaint, which asks that the Great Northern company be forbidden to flo the acts contemplated in the igreement with the Northern Pacific, and for a temporary injunction to prevent the measure from being car ried through while proceedings are pending. The ground of action alleged by the state is that the joint traffic arrangement, the holding of stock in the reorganized company and the guarantee would operate to stifle competition in the state of Minne sota. The lines operated by the dif ferent companies and their relation to the railroad traffic of the country are recited at great length. It does not appear to be the intention of the state to rely upon the prohibitory Effect of legislative statutes. The in junction is not asked'on the ground that the arrangement is in conflict frith the laws of 1874 and 1881, but because such assumed consolidation would be contrary to the interest of the people of the state. Thus the ground traversed in the recently de cided suit in the circuit court is avoided, and considerations of public equity are appealed to and relied upon by the attorney general to sup port his contention. This opens a new field of pleading, fact and argu ment, and one of no less interest than that covered by the suit which Judge Sanborn so recently decided. . . Mr. Childs has performed his duty to the people of the Northwest in bringing all the legal aspects of this great contention before the courts. .When a transaction of this magni tude is contemplated, which may af fect favorably or unfavorably the in terest of the entire community, it is desirable that all sides of it should be examined with the utmost care, and that the courts should have am ple opportunity to pass upon every question involved. This is true whether we look at the matter from the point of view of those who favor or those who oppose the arrange ment that ' has , been suggested. In any case, before a transaction so large and so vital comes to the status of an accomplished fact, it should be shown just where it stands in law and in equity. s The circuit court has ".decided that, as far as the statutes tot Minnesota are concerned, the Great Northern company has the right to make. ; the agreement set forth -.in. its statement of the case. The equities that are bound up in the case will now have to be passed upon, together with whatever other Considerations .the state may. hava to urge why the deal should be re garded with disfavor by the courts. This is another important step, prob ably the most Important yet "taken, in the long course of litigation which will undoubtedly, as the Globe has already said, mark the progress of the reorganization of the Northern Pacific. The outcome of the state's case will be watched with an inter est far keener and more general than that awakened. by the stockholder's suit which was decided on Saturday last. _M_i . THE CHICKAMACGA PARK. The 19th to the 21st days of the present month will be given up to the dedication of the national park established on the battle fields of Chickamauga and of Chattanooga. To the end that these two great fields.the last of which ranks among the decisive ones of the war, might be properly preserved to coming generations, with all their lessons of valor and patriotism, the federal government has provided for the acquirement and mantenance for ever of a park including in its area fifteen square miles, every mile of which saw some part of the noted conflicts that took place there thirty two years ago. Standing on the top of Lookout mountain, where "Fight ing Joe" Hooker fought "above the clouds," the eye- takes in a stretch of twelve miles of battle lines, ex tending from Wauhatchie to where Sherman crossed the Tennessee to wrest from Bragg the possession of the north end of Missionary ridge. From the extreme Confederate left at Glass's mill to the mouth of South Chicka mauga creek, where Sherman landed his troops, is a drive of twenty-two miles. r, ?v '".,",. The plan of operations described in a Century article by i Gen. H. .V. Boynton, to whom the •' park project is indebted ? for enthu siastic • promotion, * is 7 unique, one not heretofore adopted . in any country and possible only in this. It is not a commemoration of a Federal battle field, but the ; gray as well as the blue participate in the histories noted by monuments and tablets, as well as in the dedicatory ceremonies. Gordon and Longs will be there, as well as -the surviving Federal com manders, while ithe rank and file of both armies will be represented by the thousand. The design is to mark every position held by any regiment or battery, Federal or Con federate, at any point occupied by them during either battle, with suit able monuments and tablets, so that the movement of any organization may be traced from the opening to the close of the battle. It is not the triumph of the North " that is cele brated, but the fields where Amer icans, each convinced of the right of the cause maintained, contested with American bravery for the mas tery. It is this recognition of the complete restoration of the Union, the obliteration of the rancor?' that, followed the war and was so cruelly fostered by a political party for its own -selfish; • and - unpatriotic pur poses, that makes the dedication of this national park not only unique, but significant as marking the ter mination of old* and the inaugura tion of new conditions. The work of the general govern ment has been supplemented by the co-operation of the states, North and South, whose troops took part in the conflicts, ; erecting monuments and tablets to commemorate the share their troops had in the battles. To the $725,000 already appropriated by congress have been added $400,000 appropriated by the states for mon uments. Forty-five? miles -of. com pleted roads, built . by ; the federal government, thread the- park, in cluding those along which the troops marched to and from the battle. One road runs the length of Mission ary ridge, and others are run along the sides of Lookout, mountain where Hooker marched. Besides* the park the seven acres that : embrace Orch ard knob, Bragg's center in.the lat er battle of Chattanooga, have been secured and added, y while ';; the city of Chattanooga has extehd ed her avenues to connect with the roads of the park. Wherever, out side the park limits, some notable action took place, a site . has . been secured and a monument erected. One hundred and six of these mon uments and one hundred and -fifty granite markers will be in position when the dedication opens. A novel feature will be the 'marking of -the positions held by the field batteries by using the actual guns -engaged in the battles. These are mounted on carriages of cast iron, to insure their durability, duplicating In size and style the originals,- while siege pieces will be mounted on Lookout and other points. Over four hundred guns will be thus put in position to remain as permanent features of the park. Eight large shells'. will mark the spot where general officers were killed, each of the armies contribut ing four of, their commanders to the list of slain. Thus will the great bat tles live in history. Nothing will be left for the visitors to the fields years hence to supply; but the im agination to picture again the surg ing lines of blue and gray, the clouds of powder smoke and the roar of cannon and the rattle of musketry that filled the valley and re-echoed from the mountain sides that hemmed it in. Step by step, thus aided, he can follow the for tunes of each corps and division, regiment and battery that upheld on those fateful days the reputation of American soldiers for dauntless bravery. : i---v: PLATTJS CONVENTION. Three weeks ago the representa tives of the Republican party in Pennsylvania met to listen to the commands of Quay and to carry ,'out his wtill. Yesterday the ~ same per formance was gone through with in New York, with Piatt in , the -title role. Seldom has that great state seen any of its party • conventions THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1895. so absolutely under the , domination of one man. There was no effort" to conceal it. The delegates seemed to glory in their shame, and to Piatt were accorded publicly the honors that the wisest, and bravest leaders receive only on the rare occasion of some great service to party or country. The Piatt collar was worn as ostentatiously at Saratoga as if it were a ribbon of honor instead of a badge of shame.' So little pretense of independent action was there that the ticket and -the platform which Plato had prepared, long in advance "were given out beforehand to the press. All that the convention had to do was to ratify formally the or ders of Its boss; and, having done his pleasure, it adjourned. ; ?%*.' There was but one disturbing issue. The enforcement of the Sunday laws in New York city has made a great sensation there and throughout the state. Piatt had * decided 'that he would have nothing to-do with this dangerous question. • It is a vote killer, at whichever end the party takes hold. But at the last moment he was forced from his position of "masterly Inactivity." A great deal of feeling had beep aroused.and War ner Miller offered in open conven tion his resolution for Sunday clos ing, and followed it with a? set speech. The situation thus became one that could not be dodged. The resolution had to be disposed of; and Piatt and his lieutenants, having been prepared for such a possibility, accepted the Sunday issue as the lesser of the two evils between which they were thus obliged to choose. It is likely to be one that will return to plague them. For, as adopted, it will be observed that it does not declare for the enforcement of the Sunday laws, but for their maintenance. This is a different matter. ~]y. There are thousands of people in New Tork city who do not believe in the wisdom of the Sunday laws as they now stand, but do believe in . enforcing them until amended or re pealed. The people largely favor home rule. They do not believe in the right of any community to force, in local matters, Its views or cus toms upon all other communities. All of these voters the Republican platform will repeL In it speaks the voice of centralized power, of which the Republican party has become the representative. It is not, be it remembered, a question of enforc ing the laws. What the platform de mands is that they be maintained, without allowance or regard for lo cal differences of habit or convic tion. We Imagine that it will not be found an altogether easy task to carry New York state upon that is sue. The remainder, of the platform contains nothing worthy of ■ notice, being the mere aggregation of gen eralities which Mr. Piatt had already confided to the public. The voters of New York state ousted one party from power because it had become too subservient to the will of a _ boss. We do not believe that they will show greater. toleration toward -the other, when led by a man' who rep resents all that is worst in the polit ical life of the day, without pos sessing even more than mediocre ability. This will be a good year to make an end of Piatt, and Piatt's convention did nothing to interfere with that desirable consummation. • «_fc A NOTABLE. CONVERSION. Much attention has been attract ed, and deservedly so, by the recent letter of Senator Mills, of Texas, in which he comes out unequivocally against the free silver heresy. Sen ator Mills ls one of the men .who, like Secretary Carlisle and Henry Watterson and Hoke Smith, was for merly on the wrong side of the cur rency question. They took the posi tion which they then held -.in the light of such information as they had at that time, and of the circum stances then existing. It was com paratively easy, for example, for a man to persuade himself ten years ago, before' the operation of the Bland act had caused public dis trust, and before the abomination known as the Sherman act of 1890 had been passed, to believe, if he had not given this question thor ough study, that the free coinage of silver would not be especially dis astrous. All the great object lessons that have taught the people better have occurred since then. Men have been induced, by monetary changes and financial agitation, to look into underlying principles. When they have done so, they have generally come to the conclusion reached by those whom we have named above. Senator Mills has done this, and announces himself boldly. His in telligence rejects' instantly the un thinkable proposition that there can be a double standard. Knowing that the choice of every people, whether It will or not, must be between gold as a standard and silver as a stand ard, he declares unhesitatingly 'i for , the former. He says that no one, ex cept the man who owes a sum of money and wishes, to pay his debt for a portion of Its face value, would be benefited by a? change " from the gold to ; the silver standard. Those who would be injured are an army of millions. They include every de positor in savings or other banks, every holder of any kind of securi ties, every possessor of a life insur ance policy, and, most important of all, every man or woman working for a daily or weekly wage. While the prostration of our financial institu tions consequent upon a revolution of free sliver would be great, the loss to the wage-earners and wage-sav ers would be incalculable. ? Senator Mills has concluded, as most men do who bring .to this ques tion an unbiased opinion, that there is no reason why we should inflict such untold damage upon' our peo ple for • the Interest of no one ex cept the owners of mines and bullion, and the debtors who wish to , re pudiate a part of their obligations'* He deserves the highest credit ; for his courage In making this state ment. Texas is' one of the. states in which public opinion has been misled and uneducated on the cur-' rency question. The state machine, like that of Missouri, is in the con trol of the free silverltes, and li a* voiced their views. Most politicians",' in such an event, would at least w Lit until they learned on which side the • preponderance of public opinion might lie. Not so Mr. Mills. Having, Investigated for himself and ma le up his mind as an honest man,* tie. speaks It like a brave one. The thne l is not far distant when the Den o* crats • who stood up in their .o. m,; states and combatted the free coin-.* age heresy, at the time when it' threatened to sweep the party awiy with it, will be held in the highest honor. Not least regarded amoiig them, for his bold and timely ax d^' influential declaration, will be the' senator from Texas. i .... '■' — — T THE ISSUE TENDERED!. / * More than the ordinary significance of the "opening fire" with which state campaigns begin attaches to the gathering of Ohio Republicans last week to listen to the veteran Sher man, the Napoleonic McKinley and • the ebullient Foraker. It was more than the formal opening of a state campaign. It was really the begin ning of the McKinley wing of the presidential campaign of 1896. It was the opening gun of a contest for a United States senatorship. Both events eclipsed the state questions, if there are any, and made the na tional contest supreme. If the influ ence of Mr. Sherman is felt in the framing of the national platform next year, as it has been In the past, or if Mr. McKinley is the choice of the convention, as seems probable, the speeches of both these men may be taken as indicating the issues on which they purpose the battle of '96 shall be fought, so far as their side of the oon test Is concerned. It is this that makes the meeting one of more than state importance. ...'. ; It was as significant for what was not as for what was said. Aside from his Praise of the policy that had brought into the currency "Sil ver coins amounting to $500,000,000, several times as much as were In circulation at any former period,'' Senator Sherman made no reference to a future policy. He avoided it as carefully as if he were a candidate for the presidency himself. Gov. Mc- Kinley was equally . reticent, but beclouded the topic with platitudes. The party "stands where it always has stood, for, good money, whether gold, silver or paper, all to be under national authority and everywhere equal and interchangeable, which Will honestly measure the exchanges of ' the people and deceive and cheat nobody." .These be fine words, but they butter no parsnips. A Demo cratic congress repudiated one kind of Republican "good money," and no demand is more emphatic or suc cinct than is that of the entire busi ness world for a . radical ' change in the currency . system remaining as a heritage of Republican incom petency. But of this there is no ink ling of recognition in the speech either of the "financier" or of \ the "economist." One looks in vain through the turgid sentences . where in McKinleyism gets fulsome praise for one word as to any further uti lization of silver, any suggestion of internationalism of effort, any hint of a divorcement of the government from banking, any surcease from the operations of the "endless chain." So it becomes apparent that the cur rency is not to be made an issue by that party next year. No speaker, left any doubt as to what will be the leading issue. Sen-, ator Sherman said: "What we pro-'' pose and intend is to restore the pro tective policy of the Republican party, to collect enough revenue to; pay current expenses, to reduce the national debt, to build up and in crease domestic manufactures and productions, not only of the work shop, but of the farm and the mine." The Gorman act, accepted by the protectionists of the senate in both; parties, so protective that the presi dent refused it his signature of ap proval, is. to be repealed and Mc- Kinleyism restored. Modesty re strained Mr. McKinley from prais ing his own : a©t.and demanding its restoration, but he did by indirec tion what he refrained from doing directly. The disasters of '93 were due, by his statement, to the ap prehension of the repeal of his act, and the recovery of '95 is solely*; due to the Republican victories of '94 with their, promise of restoration of ' his policy. Even Fire Alarm For- ; aker made the monstrosity of " ttfej Democratic Gorman tariff . the bur-' den of ? his wail, the sole object qfj his attack. . i- :-,. ..:'%;; a ' Bo here we have the leading finan cier of . that -party, the leading can- : didate ; for • the presidency and the candidate for senator, all shoving i aside every other public question as f of minor importance and declaring! that next year the tariff, the restoi.- _ atioriof the act of 1890, in Its splrft! if not in its detail, shall be the issue on .which ; American voters must j give their verdict. The Democrats, hosts '"■ accept the ? challenge gladly? j Theirs will not be a defensive cam paign. ? Nowhere will they point to the . Gorman act with pride as the consummation of ' their purpose. The treachery and cowardice that pre vented in congress the fruition of the will of the convention and the ma- i jority of the voters will not be con- : doned or apologized for. They, will point to the results of the conces sions wrung; from the protectionists that wear the badge of their ; party the better to i serve their own ends as proof r that reduction of taxes is not disastrous; that industries thrive and s prosper with decreased protec tion; that ; the alarms raised, the predictions of ruin made, if , the rates were ; abated a jot,' : were groundless; * and they will ask the people to pre i vent- any backw-twa*-' _&£•-* frcw *&at. same ground that all taxation should be solely for the support of the gov ernment. By that- sign they will again conquer as they did before. SHOULD UK PROHIBITED. : Once in about so often complaint >• is made, by persons residing in the vicinity of the Minnesota Transfer, of the noxious odors that are given off by one of the industries pursued there. For many years, at intervals, the business of rendering has been , carried on at some . point between l the two cities. Since the spaces be- I tween them have filled up, and espe cially since the growth of Merriam t Park and its neighborhood, this has : i conflicted with the public comfort. ; It has been a constant source of ' .complaint and bone of contention. , ,The fixing of the Minnesota Trans fer in the interurban j district, with ■ its great Interchange of freight and its handling of cattle.has made this a desirable point for the slaughtering trade; and this, in turn, has drawn after it more or less of the render ing work. Sooner. or later residents protest, the nuisance is abated for a time, and then It breaks out again. , ,The regulation of this matter is provided for by law and can eas ily be made satisfactory. To carry on the rendering business within the limits of the city requires a permit from the city council, and this has been too easily obtained. ..There is no good reason why this particular industry should not be banished from the neighborhood of the popu lated center. .The time has come, it came long ago, when the growth of these two cities toward : each other devoted to residence purposes the terra tory " between : them. Prom that time such territory became an unfit and improper place for the conduct of any occupation offensive to those living in the vicinity. ' We can see no particular hardship in requiring rendering establishments to oon duct their business at a distance from the center of population, just as we provide for the disposition of night soil and garbage '■ where they will not be offensive." There are few odors more unendurable than those that arise from the factories where the carcasses of dead animals and the refuse of the slaughter houses and shops are being turned : into grease. If no favors are shown and no exceptions made, it will soon ap pear that this business will " locate itself in its proper haunt, far from the abodes of men. Beyond a ques tion it should be prohibited uncon ditionally anywhere near the resi dence district. • What an elegant display of har mony that was down in Ohio last week. Sherman pledging a unani mous delegation for McKinley; Mc- Kinley embracing Foraker, and For aker flinging his arms' about : the necks of Sherman and McKinley. How some of the boys down among the delegates must . have turned to each other and solemnly winked and nudged . each other under the ribs. -But- it is only the rustics that are Imposed on by such farces. We have had it put on the convention and ratification stages here in Minneso ta by the old stagers in both parties, and we have seen them- later <V*aw the knives out of their bootlegs and koto inserting their, blades . between the ribs of them for whom they had vowed eternal amity. Harmony among the chiefs of warring factions is what some spoilsman character ized the reform of the civil service l "a barren ideality." The Boston Herald "regrets to see a public man of Gov. McKinley's prominence stooping to the decep tive statement that the revival of business is due to the success of the Republican party in the more recent elections in the country," and it sug gests that he leave "such work to the smaller fry of politicians." This is tough on WhLtelaw Reid, whose ingenious Tribune first invented it. It is also rough on Senator Sher man, whose genius for finance the Herald never- tires of praising, for he. too, in his speech, made just preceding McKinley's, made the same assertion. And it ls a reflection on our venerable contemporary who has felt bound to cuckoo the cry. But, then, what must be the dire emergency when these eminents adopt the methods of the small fry politicians? ?. _- The battle flags of the regiments are falling to pieces under the gnaw ing teeth of time, and an artist pro poses to perpetuate them in oil paint ings. One other emblem of '"the party that preserved the 'Onion" Is sadly dilapidated, and an artist should be engaged to paint its sem *-__-_ance in enduring colors while yet : memory of it is fresh. The erection ;Qf the Confederate monument in Chi cago, the encampment of the Grand .Army at . Louisville, where ; the blue <ahd the gray mingled In? fraternal TOiendship, and the coming dedica t ton at Chickamauga, where generals jg the Confederate army will share with those/ of the Union army in the ceremonies, are prominent illustra tions ,of the fact that the "bloody _____irt'.'- shall wave no more- and that Its days of use are forever gone, -*•"■' -jn - • •■• _*■•■-.-■■• fit '•' '.- '':*-- «*•'**■ '■ !?•■ 3 Dr. Chauncey M. Depew, LL. D., says New York will give a phenom . enal Republican I majority this '. fall. Steve Brodie, B. J. (bridge jumper), i King of the Bowery, says Tammany will sweep New York -city with such : a tremendous majority that the Re- ] publicans cannot save themselves in the state. Take your choice. : Vest is pulled down.' It ls positive ly announced from Carlsbad that he : will never again favor a ratio of - : 16 ■ t6_l. It looks as if Charles A. Towne 1 and Tom i Carter would soon be - the only - silverltes of prominence in the country. '. ?;'.U?' ?..''~>X .•-«. -_^. .. - . '■>-..,. . -,. .A?.v_,^,. t i' '.'?•'. .. -••-.- ,?■ f-- - ■ V Amos G. : Warner probably hit ; the nail pretty squarely on the head at Ifenver when he said: "If the' state itself is under the influence of crim- ; |£aals, how can it hope * to reform Criminals V "■ ••.. . ■■ -.-v^'Vy AT THE THEATERS. Miss Julia Marlowe Taber ' and Mr. . Robert Taber entertained another large audience at the Meropolltan opera house last night with their mag nificent production of ' "King Henry IV." The company is a most excel lent one, and Mr. and Mrs. Taber ap pear to most | excellent advantage in this play. "King Henry IV." will be repeated tonight and Saturday mati nee. Thursday night they will pre sent "As You Like It;" Friday night, "Romeo and Juliet," and Saturday night, "Twelfth Night." ' * • • With two performances today, Steve Brodie and his interesting play, "On the Bowery," will bid farewell to St. Paul for a year at least. % Brodie. has made a hit in this city, and there is every encouragement for his visiting this section again. * * * Charles H. Hoyt's latest comedy success, "A Contented Woman," will be the attraction at the Metropolitan opera house all next week, beginning Sunday night. Mr. Hoyt's wife, Caro line Miskel Hoyt, is the star in the new play. - \yz-zy--z ~ : ' '■ * * * The desire for something new on the part of theater-goers will be very sub stantially met when Edward J. Nu gent's production of the new Afro- American fantastical, farcical and mu sical comedy, "Down on the Suwanee River," is presented in this city, where It is booked to appear at the Grand next Sunday. DARK DAYS FOR DURRANT. » '. —_____. Bringing: Hint Very Close to the Bloody Scene. SAN PRANCISCO, Sept. 17.— As . the trial of Theodore Durrant prog resses, strong evidence is being piled up against the defendant. The evi dence introduced relative to Dur rant's whereabouts on the afternoon of April 3 is directly contradictory to his statement, made on the night of his arrest, that he had not seen the murdered girl after he left her on the way to school, the morning of the 3rd. Martin Quinlan. an at torney, today supplied another link, testifying that he saw Durrant and a young lady walking on Bartlett street, toward Emanuel church, at 4:10 p. m. April' 3. The defense tried to impeach his reliability and man aged to get before the jury the state ment that Quinlan had twice been arrested for assault to murder, and once for another crime. The court severely • reprimanded the defend ant's attorneys, who; were) obliged to admit to the Jury that Quinlan had been acquitted on each charge. Da vid Clarke, who accompanied Quin lan, then corroborated all Quinlan had said regarding his movements. Mrs. Caroline Leake, the next wit ness, .took Durrant and his girl com panion up to the door of Emanuel church. _ She was positive she saw Durrant enter the church with a fe male companion on April 3. She has known him for years and could not be mistaken. . Cross-examination failed to weaken her testimony. . ? TOLD about doodling. Expectation of Sensational Ar rests in Illinois. SPRINGFIELD, 111.. Sept. 17. — Editor .Kohlsaat and Reporter Can non, of the 'Chicago Times-Herald, appeared before the Sangamon coun ty grand jury .', today and related what they knew about boodling leg islators. The evidence was all in the shape of affidavits of prominent Chicago business men, who swear money was paid for the passage of several bills. The evidence was quite sensational and incriminating. This afternoon D. W. Wilson, of El gin, secretary of the National Dairy men's association, and Representa tive Jonathan Merriam, of Pekin, appeared before the Jury. It is stated that sensational arrests will develop from the evidence now be fore the jury. Reply, to Rev. Conley. E. R. Lynch, of Minneapolis, writes to the Globe a letter in reply to a portion of Rev. J. W. Conley's ser mon preached last Sunday. The sub stance of the communication as far as it relates to the charge complained of is as follows: I wish to make a few observations on the sermon of Rev. Conley last Sunday. In the first place I wish to indorse all he said against the saloon. It Is a gigantic evil. It is one of the darkest blots on civilization. It ought to be, must be, and will be destroyed— or civilization will be. Agreeing with the major part of the sermon, I am sorry to be obliged to take issue with a minor part of it. Mr. Conley said that the Knights of Labor have turned Sunday into a day of debauchery and drinking. This Is an absolute and un pardonable falsehood. My father was not a temperance man, but brought liquor home to be. used by the family as they wished. At sixteen I went tb ; work on the railroad, and soon after Joined the Knights of Labor. It was there I received my first temperance lesson. The first meeting I attended temperance was the main question dis cussed. And this is true of many of the meetings. Pew questions receive more consideration by the Knights of Labor than temperance. A saloon keeper is not allowed to join the Knights of Labor, and that Is more than can be said of many - churches. Why did you single out labor organi zations as the object of your attack? If you know anything about the subject at all you. know there is less intem perance among the laboring people who belong to labor organizations than among those who do not. ' : .-."■'' Well Named. A boy's fishing pole was .'fastened to the root of. a tree on the river bank, and he was sitting In the Sun playlnj* with his dog. idling the time away, as he had been fishing all day and caught nothing. "Fishing?" inquired the man passing. "Yes," answered the boy. "Nice dog you have there; * what is his name?" . "Fish." "Fish? That's a queer name for a dog. What do you can him that for?" V'Y ' 'Cause :he won't bite."- Then the man pro ceeded on his way. • .*. "y : Mercenary Woman in India. ; Man asks for protection against * mercenary woman in Bengal. Babu '. Rasik Lai Roy wants the government to help him suppress the excessive ex pense ot Hindu marriages, and es pecially the dowry of the brides, as \ "the temptation of selling the son to . the highest . bidder has become too great to be resisted." V-Z Trying: to Shame Deadheads. ?' So many deadheads see the ball 'games at Wahconah park, Pittsfield, Mass., by peeking over the fence and ■resorting to tricks of all sorts, that an amateur photographer has been en gaged, who will take snap shots of the deadheads and put them on ex hibition in one of the store windows. : •y Dissatisfied Burglars. . Burglars who entered a Connecticut" mansion the other night, not finding any silverware or jewelry, exhibited their dissatisfaction by smashing nearly all the door panels and the fur niture and tearing up the carpets.-. _. Z,yy . A Queer Fate. .. . The police of a Paris suburb recently 'arrested a woman for setting oft* fire works without, a permit, and found that the occasion for the display j was a small fete which she was giving to a number of - her friends .in celebration . of her husband's i death. .>.- DELEGATES WED lIV GOV. CI.OI.GH TO ATTEND THE DEEP WATERWAYS CON . , .VENTION, : 7yy. . I STRONG MEN ARE SELECTED LETTERS TO . ST. PAUL AND MIN NEAPOLIS BUSINESS MEN ?v URGING ACTION. SMALLEY FINDS DIFFICULTY In, Getting: the Iti«li. Men to Con sent to Give Their Time to Public Business. President E. V. Smalley, of the cham merr of commerce, who has been depu ted by the chamber to appoint dele ' gates to represent the city of St. Paul at the international deep waterways convention to be held at Cleveland, 0., Sept. 24, 25 and 26, said yesterday that he had not a3 yet selected any dele gates. - "It is an easy matter," continued Mr. Smalley, "to decide upon men who would make excellent delegates, but it is difficult! to find men who are able to leave their business at this time. This is especially true of our jobbers, who are so directly Interested in the deep waterway' plan. They are especially busy at this period of the year. By the way, I received a letter today from Gov. Clough which the public ought to read. The letter ls as follows: E. V. Smalley. Esq., President Chamber of Commerce— Dear Sir: The international deep waterways conven tion Is called to meet at Cleveland, O. Sept. 24, 25 and 26. . The project of se curing a continuous deep waterway from the head of our great chain of lakes to th© Atlantic ocean is one that ought, to enlist the Interest and co operation of the whole country, and especially the state of Minnesota. Water transportation for the bulky materials which constitute so large a proportion of the commerce of this region la the most promising field in which to' look for that cheapening of the cost of carriage which is depended on to develop the resources of this state. Minnesota, while desirous of the im provement of her own natural advan tages and determined to secure It. takes a -broad view of the claims of the great system of which she is an Important part and should join hands with her neighbors in every patriotic and national enterprise. I hope that the business men of; this city will ap preciate the importance of this move ment, and that a large delegation will attend the convention from here. All commercial bodies are entitled to as many delegates as they deem proper to appoint. Give this matter your earliest attention. Very truly yours, D. M. CLOUGH. Governor. DELEGATES : NAMED BY THE GOVERNOR. Following • are the delegates named by the governor to. the convention: At Large— C. K. Davis, St. Paul; Knute Nelson, Alexandria; D. H. Baoon, Tower; E. S. You mans, Winona; Edgar Weaver, Mankato; E. H. Blod gett. Red Wing; J. A. Leonard. Rochester; Elmer Adams, Fergus Falls; Neil Mclnnis, Virginia, Fred L. Denney, Sandstone; J. A. Tawney Winona; J. T. McCleary. Mankato; Joel P. Heatwole. Northfield; A. R. Kiefer, St. Paul; Loren Fletcher, Min neapolis; C. A. Towne, Duluth; F. M Eddy, Glenwood. . Duluth— B. P. Howard, W. W. Billson, A. R. MacFarlane, A. C. Weiss, Leonidas Merritt, W. A. Cant, J. C. Hunter, I. L. Washburn, * E. G. Swanstrom, St. Paul— W. R. Merriam, George • Thompson, A. H. Lindeke, .-• J. A. Wheelock,. : Wm. Dawson Jr., J. H. Schurmeier, Geo. R. Finch, - * A. B. Plough. E. W. Winter, J. W. Kendrick. C. S. Morgan, Minneapolis — . C. A. Pillsbury, J.C.Reno. F. H. Peavey, J. H. Martin, T. B. Janney, James Marshall, George R. Newell, John W. Thomas, Samuel Hill, C. M. Harrington, P. D. Underwood, J. H. Session, C. M. Loring, J. S. Bell. CLOUGH'S LETTER TO CROCKER. Following -Is the letter sent by Gov. Clough to the Minneapolis Board of Trade: A. L. Crocker, President Board of Trade, Minneapolis, Minn.— My. Dear Sir: The project of securing a contin uous deep water way from the head of our great chain of lakes to the Atlantic . ocean Is one that ought to enlist the interest and co-operation of the whole country, and especially of that great and as yet but partially developed empire that lies between the lakes, and the Pacific coast. Water transportation for the bulky materials which constitute so large a proportion of the commerce of this region is the most promising field in which to .look for that cheapening of the cost of carriage which is depended on to de velop the resources of the Northwest. I think the United States has not been sufficiently alive to the importance of canals and improved natural water ways. . Europe has been, much more prudent and far-sighted in this respect than this country. Of late years, how ever, there has plainly been a growth of interest in the subject among* us. The great lakes and their connected waters form the most extensive and splendid natural avenue of commerce on the globe, and to utilize to* the full so magnificent an endowment is only the dictate of the clearest self-inter est. ' •■■■*' .-.-•■.-■. I hope the state of Minnesota may ba well represented. at the Cleveland con vention of the International Deep Wa terways association on the 24th of the present month, and. that the various commercial bodies will send large dele gations. • Minnesota, while desirous of the improvement of her own natural advantages and determined to secure it, takes a broad view of the claims of the great system of which she is an important part, and will join hands with her neighbors ln every patriotic and . national enterprise. Yours very 1 c 6 tgl v ' D. M. CLOUGH, Governor. HE MET A SPECTER. What Befell a. Married Man Who ' Stayed Ont Late. i - A genuine ghost, .with wings, was seen last night on Oneida street, near West Seventh. Most ghosts are ob served by women, spiritualists or in toxicated persons, but this wanderer from the shores of the Styx was iden tified by "an intelligent young married ! man, who spends his days In the prac tical work of compiling law books for the West Publishing company and his nights in the sober delights of domes ticity. Mr. Franklin, If such was his name, alighted from a Fort Snelling car at Oneida street at 11:30 p. m. At ' this hour, of course, the churchyards" had not yet begun to yawn, but th^ must have been already exhibiting their skeleton teeth. With his mind i fixed partly on the difficulty of index ing "Divorce" In a forthcoming vol ume of South Dakota statutes, and ' partly on an excuse for not arriving i home at 10, Mr. Franklin proceeded up Oneida street. Half a block from Sev- 1 ii Ay SSSjEth NICOTINE mm JU j^h| the active principle •▼■r^i-to^^^H NEUTRALIZED CHEW J Iq#is fi_n__Li SMOKE iflSpi Ulllin i /\N I l-OYSPBPTIC JS ■fife " ' /tW J (-•DYSPEPTIC itfi enth, in the middle of the road, he was confronted by a ghost. ; . It could be nothing else. It wore neither pants, skirts nor bloomers, but a lone white robe instead. Its features were con cealed by disheveled black locks, but Its countenance, as well as its uplifted hands, was as white as its graceful, folded wings. Mr. Franklin did not know the ghost. Rather than disturb a stranger he sought the opposite side of the street. But the angelic visitor cast rocks at him ana pieces of brick. Then Mr. Franklin retreated to Sev enth street, sought Officer Tawlter, and with him sought the ghost. The wing ed horror was not found, but Mr. Franklin will never again leave his wife alone till midnight. POPS FAIL TO RESPOND. Only Two Members of Central Committee at a. Meeting:. The Populist central committee was billed to hold a meeting last night, but a visit by a Globe reporter to the. Capitol hotel, the place where the meet ing was to be held, revealed only two members present— W. E. Murray and a solitary companion. Mr. Murray said the reason.no meeting was held was because Chairman Krieger had failed to show up and the committee adjouned subject to the call of the chair. Mr. Murray did not make it known, how ever, that the majority of the commit tee had failed to show up and no meet ing could be held even to pass a motion to adjourn. A STATUE "OF GRANT. I Army ot Tennessee to Erect One in Washington. CINCINNATI, Sept. 17.— The So ciety of the Army of the Tennessee reassembled at 10 a. m. for the sec ond day's session. The annual ad dress of Col. Fred D. Grant was still the topic of comment and praise. The society adjourned before noon to attend a reception by the citizens of Cincinnati at the zoological gar dens. Maj. Hoyt Sherman reported in favor of St. Louis for the next annual meeting, ,in September; adopted. Col. Fred D. Grant report ed Gen. O. O. Howard as the com mittee's selection for orator at St. Louis next year; adopted with a stirring, unanimous vote. A resolu tion was adopted to erect a statute of Gen. U. S. Grant at Washington, D. C, and ask the co-operation of congress. President : Dodge an nounced that he would : name the Grant monument committee after his return to New York. The following officers were elected: President, C. H. Dodge, Iowa; corresponding sec retary. Gen. Andrew Hickenlooper, Cincinnati; recording secretary. Col. Cornelius Cadler, Cincinnati; treas urer, M. F. Force, Ohio Soldiers* home, Sandusky; vice . presidents. Col. Nelson Cole, Missouri; Gen; O. O. Howard, U. S. A.; Capt. A. C. Kemper, Ohio; Capt. Joseph Dicker son, Washington; Capt..E.-B. Hamil ton, Illinois; Col. W. L.! Shaw, Iowa; Col. G. H. Hildt, Missouri; Capt. S. S. Frowe, Illinois; Col. Milo Smith, Iowa; CoL J. W. Barnes, Missouri] Capt. Louis Kellar, Ohio. •? Tonight, in the great "dining rooir of the Grand hotel, gorgeouslj adorned and brilliantly lighted, 150 members of j the Army of the . Ten nessee, including their, wives and daughters, sat down to a sumptuous banquet President Dodge, master of ceremonies, had seated near him Gen. Horace Porter, Gen. Schofield, Gen. Howard and Col. Fred Grant. Never' at any previous J meeting of the society were the after-dinner speeches more -. uniformly eloquent, and never at any subsequent meet ing will it be possible for the speeches to be listened to with closer attention or more enthusiastic inter terest. There was a peculiar felicity j in the arrangement lof the toasts. First came the "Roll. Call" response to a poem by Capt. Byers; second, "The Flag," Gen. Porter; third, "What We Fought For," Capt. J. B. Foraker; fourth, "The Rank and File." Father Thomas E. Sherman The responses by Gen. Porter, ex- Gov. Foraker and Father Sherman were masterpieces of eloquence and models of classic English. The other toasts were: "The Reg ular Army," Col. M. A. Cochran; "An upright Judiciary, a Thinking Bayonet." Lieut. R. S. Tv thill; "Our Boys," John A. Logan Jr.; "Our Girls." Miss Mary Logan Pearson; "Our Last Campaigns," Gen. D. B. Henderson; "Our Society," Col. Gil bert A. Pierce. The speeches of John A. Logan. Gen. Henderson and Miss Pearson were brilliant. The members of the society went to bed on sleepers which will bring them to Chattan ooga tomorrow. SONS OF VETERANS PARADE. Imposing: Procession Ends the Knoxville Celebration. KNOXVILLE. Term.. Sept. 17 —Fif teen thousand people from a distance witnessed the grand parade today in honor of the .encampment of the Sons of Veterans. The parade moved promptly at 10 o'clock from North Knoxville. Capt. William Rule, editor of the Journal, was chief marshal* Capt. Allison, chief, of staff, and prominent citizens were chief marshal-! and aides. The city was elaborately decorated. The parade was the largest and most Imposing ever witnessed in Knoxville. First came a platoon of mounted officers, the chief marshal, and assistants; in carriages. Gov. Will iam McKinley, of Ohio, and staff; Gov.' Upham, of Wisconsin, and staff; Gov.' Woodbury, of Vermont, and staff* Past Commander -In-Chief Lawier, and chiefs in uniform rank. Knights of Pythias; Grand Commandery, Sons of Veterans and delegates from nearly every state in the Union; G. A. R. vet erans and /University of .Tennessee cadets and faculty; Knoxville Legion and Marble City guards; fire depart ment; school boys' brigade; lodges and military bands. Receptions were held this afternoon and the visitors left to night for Chattanooga to attend the Chickamauga park dedication. Mrs. 1.-iiiKt >•. Suit Resins. - LAPORT, Cal.. Sept. 17.— The papers containing Mrs. Langtry's applica tion for divorce were- filed in this county this evening. The summons was issued and order made for publi cation for the same. Separation is asked on two grounds — and failure to provide. "?.?'"; - i -